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SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

January 20, 2019

A VISIBLE GOD

UN DIOS VISIBLE

We find it difficult to convey ideas to people unless we can actually show them something, demonstrate what we mean. God, who is invisible and truly beyond human understanding, appar- ently faces the same difficulty. People want to see, not just listen to an idea. So God gave us Jesus Christ, God made visible in the world.

During these past weeks we have seen how Jesus was revealed as an infant to the shepherds and the magi, and then began his adult “public life” at his baptism by John. Today’s Gospel reading tells us of his “first sign,” providing wine for the wedding guests at Cana.

ALERT!

An e-mail scam has been spread within our Diocese! An email supposedly coming from the pastor requesting itunes cards are sent to staff and parishioners. If you receive a similar email, please disregard and delete immediately!

A Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. This T uesday, January 22, the Church in the United States observes the annual “Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children.” This day is set aside to pray for the legal protection of human life and to do penance for the violations to human dignity through abortion.

“Only with prayer - prayer that storms the heavens for justice and mercy, prayer that cleanses our hearts and souls - will the culture of death that surrounds us today be replaced with a culture of life." -Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Catholic Bishops

A Prayer to the Holy Spirit, Giver of Life

Come Holy Spirit, Creator of all things...You who breathed over the watersat the dawn of creation and brought forth all living beings...You who filled the apostles when the Risen Lord breathed on them on the first Easter night, giving them the powerto restore life to those dead in sin...You who, on the last day, will breathe againover all the dead and raise them from the grave--Come!Come and breathe on our world again, immersed as it is in the Culture of Death!Come, O Lord and Giver of Life! Defeat the works of death in our midst, that abortion may no longer stain our land.We worship You, O Holy Spirit, and we rejoice in You.We know that no matter how strong the forces of death may be, we can still find in You the endless source of life.Renew that life in each of us, and make us worthy apostles of the Culture of Life in our day! Amen.

Fr. Manny Ediza

Fr. Roland Gabutera

and the Staff of St. Michael Parish

“A great prayer for life is urgently needed, a prayer which will rise up throughout the world.Through special initiatives and in daily prayer, may an impassioned plea rise to God, the Creator and lover of life, from every Christian community, from every group and association, from every family and from the heart of every believer.”—Pope Saint John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, no. 100*